Category Archives: Canadian Press

RIO DE JANEIRO - Authorities in Rio de Janeiro state said Thursday that security is being beefed up as the world-famous Carnival bash begins, following a wave of violence caused by rival drug traffick...

SAN FRANCISCO - Salesforce will invest $2.5 billion in its Canadian business over the next five years, the enterprise software company announced Thursday, the same day Justin Trudeau visited its Silic...

WASHINGTON - Mexico’s chief NAFTA negotiator is brushing off the idea of breaking the three-country agreement into separate one-on-one deals. Kenneth Smith Ramos is using Twitter to argue for th...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick authorities are committing to reviews of a severe neglect case that saw five children with little food, and living in a home smeared with feces. The children lived in filth...

WINNIPEG - About two weeks before a 15-year-old Indigenous girl’s body was found in the Red River, her accused killer argued loudly with her and mentioned something about a river, a Winnipeg cou...

MONCTON, N.B. - A 36-year-old New Brunswick man has been sentenced to a year in jail for ramming his car into a school and threatening to kill the staff and students. Mathieu Carroll was ordered to se...

VANCOUVER - Premier John Horgan says he plans to intensify efforts to find new markets for B.C. wine, which was already being done before Alberta’s ban over the Trans Mountain pipeline. Horgan s...

NAYAPARA REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh - Abdul Goni says the Myanmar government was starving his family one stage at a time. First, soldiers stopped the Rohingya Muslim from walking three hours to the fore...

WASHINGTON - The number of complaints filed against senior military and defence officials has increased over the past several years, but more cases are being rejected as not credible and fewer officer...

Environmentalists say Ontario’s threatened boreal caribou will be put at greater risk if the province goes ahead with a proposal to give the forestry industry a two-year extension to exemptions ...